90 Quotes by Loretta Chase

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn’t the way to do it.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

Charm of the most insidious kind: humorous, self-deprecating, and disarmingly frank and confiding.

The witless destroy what they don’t understand.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can’t we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

You’ve the Devil’s own tongue, and all his arts, I’m sure. You’re like the bad angel, whispering in my ear – and I always listen.

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It’s still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.